CVE-2025-38416

NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path

published July 25, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path

Setting tty->disc_data before opening the NCI device means we need to

clean it up on error paths. This also opens some short window if device

starts sending data, even before NCIUARTSETDRIVER IOCTL succeeded

(broken hardware?). Close the window by exposing tty->disc_data only on

the success path, when opening of the NCI device and try_module_get()

succeeds.

The code differs in error path in one aspect: tty->disc_data won't be

ever assigned thus NULL-ified. This however should not be relevant

difference, because of "tty->disc_data=NULL" in nci_uart_tty_open().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00233 · 13.4th percentile
Published
2025-07-25T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUL 14:00Z
    NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path
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